Alaska HB 109: An Act relating to residency requirements for public school enrollment for certain children of active duty military and National Guard members.

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HOUSE BILL NO. 109

IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION

BY THE HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE BY REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR

Introduced: 2/19/25
Referred: Resources, Finance

A BILL

FOR AN ACT ENTITLED

"An Act relating to the lease and sale of state land for recreational cabin sites; and 1
providing for an effective date." 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 3
* Section 1. AS 38.04.020(i) is amended to read: 4
(i) Nothing in this section prevents the disposal of other land by the 5
commissioner in accordance with AS 38.05.055, 38.05.057, 38.05.070, the issuance of 6
[REMOTE] recreational cabin site leases or sales under AS 38.05.600, AS 38.08, 7
AS 38.09, or other law. 8
* Sec. 2. AS 38.05.035(e) is amended to read: 9
(e) Upon a written finding that the interests of the state will be best served, the 10
director may, with the consent of the commissioner, approve contracts for the sale, 11
lease, or other disposal of available land, resources, property, or interests in them. In 12
approving a contract under this subsection, the director need only prepare a single 13
written finding. In addition to the conditions and limitations imposed by law, the 14

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director may impose additional conditions or limitations in the contracts as the director 1
determines, with the consent of the commissioner, will best serve the interests of the 2
state. The preparation and issuance of the written finding by the director are subject to 3
the following: 4
(1) with the consent of the commissioner and subject to the director's 5
discretion, for a specific proposed disposal of available land, resources, or property, or 6
of an interest in them, the director, in the written finding, 7
(A) shall establish the scope of the administrative review on 8
which the director's determination is based, and the scope of the written 9
finding supporting that determination; the scope of the administrative review 10
and finding may address only reasonably foreseeable, significant effects of the 11
uses proposed to be authorized by the disposal; 12
(B) may limit the scope of an administrative review and finding 13
for a proposed disposal to 14
(i) applicable statutes and regulations; 15
(ii) the facts pertaining to the land, resources, or 16
property, or interest in them, that the director finds are material to the 17
determination and that are known to the director or knowledge of which 18
is made available to the director during the administrative review; and 19
(iii) issues that, based on the statutes and regulations 20
referred to in (i) of this subparagraph, on the facts as described in (ii) of 21
this subparagraph, and on the nature of the uses sought to be authorized 22
by the disposal, the director finds are material to the determination of 23
whether the proposed disposal will best serve the interests of the state; 24
and 25
(C) may, if the project for which the proposed disposal is 26
sought is a multiphased development, limit the scope of an administrative 27
review and finding for the proposed disposal to the applicable statutes and 28
regulations, facts, and issues identified in (B)(i) - (iii) of this paragraph that 29
pertain solely to the disposal phase of the project when 30
(i) the only uses to be authorized by the proposed 31

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disposal are part of that phase; 1
(ii) the disposal is a disposal of oil and gas, or of gas 2
only, and, before the next phase of the project may proceed, public 3
notice and the opportunity to comment are provided under regulations 4
adopted by the department; 5
(iii) the department's approval is required before the 6
next phase of the project may proceed; and 7
(iv) the department describes its reasons for a decision 8
to phase; 9
(2) the director shall discuss in the written finding prepared and issued 10
under this subsection the reasons that each of the following was not material to the 11
director's determination that the interests of the state will be best served: 12
(A) facts pertaining to the land, resources, or property, or an 13
interest in them other than those that the director finds material under (1)(B)(ii) 14
of this subsection; and 15
(B) issues based on the statutes and regulations referred to in 16
(1)(B)(i) of this subsection and on the facts described in (1)(B)(ii) of this 17
subsection; 18
(3) a written finding for an oil and gas lease sale or gas only lease sale 19
under AS 38.05.180 is subject to (g) of this section; 20
(4) a contract for the sale, lease, or other disposal of available land or 21
an interest in land is not legally binding on the state until the commissioner approves 22
the contract, but if the appraised value is not greater than $50,000 in the case of the 23
sale of land or an